public analytics

I track web analytics on a number of websites I manage (mostly related to nimib) and also for some website related to Nim ecosystem (website, scinim, ...). I like to use for this plausible analytics which is very easy to use, privacy friendly (compliant with GDPR without needing cookies), and I also like how Uku and Marko are building a sustainable open source business.

A feature I like a lot of plausible is the fact that you can make the analytics dashboard public 👀 so everybody can actually see the statistics on the site I am tracking. I feel this is particularly apt for open source projects. I am not aware of other websites having this approach, if you do please let me know.

Here below are all the sites for which I have set up public analytics:

#	🌍 site	📈 analytics	💻 repository
1.	nim-lang.org	plausible.io/nim-lang.org	github.com/nim-lang/website
2.	conf.nim-lang.org	plausible.io/conf.nim-lang.org	github.com/nim-lang/conf.nim-lang.org
3.	scinim.github.io/getting-started	plausible.io/scinim.github.io%2Fgetting-started	github.com/scinim/getting-started
4.	pietroppeter.github.io/nimib	plausible.io/pietroppeter.github.io%2Fnimib	github.com/pietroppeter/nimib
5.	pietroppeter.github.io/nimibook	plausible.io/pietroppeter.github.io%2Fnimibook	github.com/pietroppeter/nimibook
6.	pietroppeter.github.io/nblog	plausible.io/pietroppeter.github.io%2Fnblog	github.com/pietroppeter/nblog
7.	pietroppeter.github.io/adventofnim	plausible.io/pietroppeter.github.io%2Fadventofnim	github.com/pietroppeter/adventofnim
8.	pietroppeter.github.io/p5nim	plausible.io/pietroppeter.github.io%2Fp5nim	github.com/pietroppeter/p5nim
9.	pietroppeter.github.io/wordle-it	plausible.io/pietroppeter.github.io%2Fwordle-it	github.com/pietroppeter/wordle-it
10.	par-le.github.io/gioco	plausible.io/par-le.github.io	github.com/par-le/gioco
11.	py4ai.com	plausible.io/py4ai.com	github.com/pietroppeter/py4ai
12.	pietroppeter.github.io/blog	plausible.io/pietroppeter.github.io%2Fblog	github.com/pietroppeter/blog

note that on wordle-it website statistics are tracked randomly once every N pageviews (N currently 40).

update table above

Use the following nim script (and update it):

import std / [strformat, strutils]

# used to update 
let data = [
  ("nim-lang.org", "", "github.com/nim-lang/website"),  # default plausible
  ("conf.nim-lang.org", "", "github.com/nim-lang/conf.nim-lang.org"),
  ("scinim.github.io/getting-started", "", ""), # default github pages
  ("pietroppeter.github.io/nimib", "", ""),
  ("pietroppeter.github.io/nimibook", "", ""),
  ("pietroppeter.github.io/nblog", "", ""),
  ("pietroppeter.github.io/adventofnim", "", ""),
  ("pietroppeter.github.io/p5nim", "", ""),
  ("pietroppeter.github.io/wordle-it", "", ""),
  # not sure why I need this special case for plausible url (maybe some plausible misconfiguration):
  ("par-le.github.io/gioco", "plausible.io/par-le.github.io", ""),
  ("py4ai.com", "", "github.com/pietroppeter/py4ai"),
  ("pietroppeter.github.io/blog", "", ""),
]

var result = """
| # | 🌍 site | 📈 analytics | 💻 repository |
|---|---|---|---|
"""
for i, row in data:
  let
    site = row[0]
    plausible = if row[1].len > 0: row[1] else: "plausible.io/" & site.replace("/", "%2F")
    repo = if row[2].len > 0: row[2] else: "github.com/" & site.replace(".github.io", "")
  result.add &"|{i+1}.|[{site}](https://{site})|[{plausible}](https://{plausible})|[{repo}](https://{repo})|\n"
echo result

opting out

You can opt out with standard ad-blocking or with a simple command in browser console, see https://plausible.io/docs/excluding-localstorage